However, in the on-site example mentioned above, the intent was to have the sign mounted so that a blind or visually impaired individual would be able to identify those doors as ones leading...
Search Results "Blindness"
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ETA Opinion: ADA Signage at Exit Doors
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Communication / Devices / Equipment / Other
I am blind, please tell me what you are doing before doing it. I read Braille and I need paper work read to me. I have a panic condition....
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Service Animals
For example, many people who are blind or have low vision use dogs to guide and assist them with orientation. Many individuals who are deaf use dogs to alert them to sounds....
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6.1. Compliance Date
The Department believes that a two-year compliance date is too long and will further delay important accessibility benefits to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have...
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DEFINITIONS
programs (SAP), large print materials, accessible electronic and information technology, or other effective methods of making visually delivered materials available to individuals who are blind...
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Overview of Current Media Technologies
dedicated staffers is determining the best new technologies to be used to deliver, in an accessible manner, alternate format services to enhance the on-site and online experiences for blind...
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Accessible Polling Places for the Visually Impaired: A Compilation of Survey Results
This survey builds upon previous work with the visually disabled population and provides the opinions and recommendations of 202 legally blind voters....
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Safety Assistants/Attendants
Finally, given that the rule will now apply to foreign carriers, we have added to the provisions concerning persons with mental disabilities and deaf-blind individuals a notation referring...
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Tonka's Job - A Mobility Assistance Animal Video
It took decades for the general public to accept dogs as service animals for the blind and disabled, now the ADA recognizes miniature horses as well....
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IMAGE Center
Whether it is a blind person learning to pour coffee or a person in a wheelchair trying to reach high cupboards, far too often, solutions go unexplored because we assume they don't exist...
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A. Purpose of the Rule
movie theaters must ensure that they meet those requirements by providing closed movie captioning and audio description upon request to all patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind...
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Section 1630.2(j)(3) Predictable Assessments
(stating, even pre-ADAAA, that “certain impairments are by their very nature substantially limiting: the major life activity of seeing, for example, is always substantially limited by blindness...
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
in favor of this language, but noted that there are occasions when service animals are provoked to disruptive or aggressive behavior by agitators or troublemakers, as in the case of a blind...
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M307 Operable Parts
Patients who are blind or have low vision have difficulty distinguishing a flat membrane button or similar control unless it is tactilely discernible from the surrounding surface and any...
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Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities
Ethics Matters: A publication of the Donnelley Family Disability Ethics Program Access to Health Care for People with Disabilities © Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 2009....
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Disability Savvy Quiz
When offering assistance to a person who is blind, which of the following are false? Speak directly facing the person. Your voice will orient the person....
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V. PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
children with disabilities are not denied admission to childcare simply because they have a disability; post-secondary schools provide testing accommodations for people who are blind...
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Lobbying & Grass Roots Activities
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), for example, was outspoken in its reservations about the ADA....
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V. ENSURING EQUAL ACCESS TO CUSTOMERS WITH DISABILITIES
cleaning windshields; opening doors; assistance in locating, retrieving, and carrying merchandise; reading product labels and prices and providing wayfinding assistance to customers who are blind...
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Theatre Access NYC
Those who are hard of hearing or deaf, have low vision or are blind, who cannot climb stairs or who require aisle seating or wheelchair locations, who are on the autism spectrum or have...
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Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Professional
Background Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires Federal agencies to make electronic and information technology (E&IT) accessible to users with disabilities, including: Blindness...
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3. Voluntary Compliance
The Department believes that access to movie theaters for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, should not depend upon where they live.[23] The Department...
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EXHIBIT E QUIKTRIP POLICY REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Service animals assist people with disabilities in many different ways, such as: Guiding people who are blind or have low vision and retrieving dropped objects for them;...
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Visual Acuity
That’s pretty good vision, but you’re legally blind if that’s the best you can do. There are a lot of animals that would die to have 20/200 vision....
